Naruto slid past the wolf's side slicing it on the snout and earning more of its ire.
The wolf turned and snarled at Naruto, snapping its jaws several times before charging again. This time Naruto slammed the ring of the kunai into the wolf's forehead dazing it some.
"Now, Sasuke," called Naruto, jumping back from the wolf.
It only took another moment for the wolf to become barbequed into a black briquette.
"That it?" asked Sasuke.
The loud cacophony of howls that followed his question was all the answer he needed.
Naruto couldn't help responding. "Not even close."
Sasuke even grinned at that.
"Here they come," said Sakura, standing slightly behind the pair.
Pack Hunter Lvl 19
HP: 2500/2500 CP: 750/750
This adult is mean and vicious and will happily tear you limb from limb then eat you only to feed the leftovers to his kin. Beware both his bite and claws as both are quite effective weapons.
Naruto swallowed nervously seeing six of the wolves appear at once, all of them between level 18 and 20. This was the first time Naruto thought he may have bit off more than he can chew.
Naruto slapped himself once, casting off any doubts. "Alright you ugly bastards, let's party." Naruto threw the two kunai he had in hand then two quick hand seals later those two became two hundred killing all but two of the wolves but leaving them on their last legs, one of them quite literally.
"Finish them," ordered Naruto, an order that Sasuke was only too happy to comply with.
"This isn't that bad," said Sakura, who only moments later had to dodge a bolt of lightning.
"You had to jinx it," grumbled Naruto, searching for the target.
Electric Enhanced Pack Wolf Lvl 22
HP: 3000/3000 CP: 1450/1500
The expression don't play with fire may mean something to humans but chewing on electric cables is just a normal pastime for the wolves of this forest. This one apparently enjoyed it a bit too much.
"You've got to be fucking kidding me," groaned Naruto, stepping back defensively.
"What the hell is that thing?" demanded Sakura, watching a little electrical light shows dance along the beasts fur randomly.
"A challenge," said Sasuke, actually grinning excitedly.
"Stick to the plan," said Naruto, hoping that his teammate would. Sadly, it was not to be so.
Sasuke charged ahead, throwing several shuriken and kunai at the wolf, not even slowing down as he went.
The wolf easily dodged the incoming metal and began its own charge toward Sasuke.
Sasuke grinned as he dodged an electric swipe from the wolf. He then stabbed it in the shoulder causing some significant damage but taking a severe shock in return.
Naruto leapt in and pulled Sasuke off the wolf before he ended up dead. A dozen of his clones then started attacking, one would run in and slice at it only to run back out or dispel from a shock that passed through the kunai.
Sasuke shook his head a few times, he felt shaky after that shock from the wolf.
"I think we need to stay at range on this thing. My clones can keep its attention, we just need to put out a lot of damage on it as fast as possible," said Naruto, watching his clones attacking the wolf carefully.
"Explosives?" asked Sakura.
"Probably," said Naruto, pulling out a small stack of explosive tags and handing some to both Sakura and Sasuke.
Sasuke took them, taking one right away and wrapping it around the handle of one of his kunai. He then lobbed it so it landed near the wolf only to detonate a moment later, shattering the kunai into fragments of shrapnel damaging the wolf and killing several of Naruto's clones.
"That works," said Sasuke, preparing another kunai.
"It wastes clones but I'm honestly okay with that if we can take this bastard down," said Naruto, preparing his own kunai the same as Sasuke while Sakura did the same.
Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura all threw their kunai together, Naruto's landing behind it and Sakura's landing just to the side. Sasuke's hit the hind quarter of the wolf and stuck.
The explosion that followed was messy and loud and left very little of the wolf behind.
A special skill has been created through a special act.
Kunai are great. Explosives are even better. Put them together and you've made something wonderful. 'Shrapnel Kunai' Lvl. 1 has been created.
[Shrapnel Kunai (Active) Lv1 0.00% CP: 15]
By combining Kunai with Kibaku Fuda you have created a damaging area of effect attack that burns, cuts, pierces, and tears. Explosive damage 50-100 plus chance to cause Bleed effect. Bleed damage 5-15 per 5 seconds.
"Awesome, you know, that was pretty kick ass," complimented Naruto, walking up to the remains of the rapidly decomposing wolf.
"Hn," he grunted.
Naruto rolled his eyes. Then he spotted a messy looking scroll left by the wolf but no other loot.
[Raiton: Chakra Denka no Jutsu] Skill Scroll
Neither of his teammates had noticed it sitting there and part of him was really greedy to pick it up and learn it before either of them saw it. But if he was caught it would not end well for him at all.
"It had a scroll on it," said Naruto, picking it up and showing his teammates.
"Really?" asked Sakura. "What is it?"
"A raiton technique, must have eaten one of the power station employees that had this on them," he explained, hoping Sasuke wouldn't pay it any mind.
"What's it do?" asked Sasuke, focused on the scroll.
"Don't know," said Naruto.
"Well open it and find out," said Sakura, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Naruto untied the string that held the scroll closed and opened it to read. "Let's see. It is a raiton technique used for self-recovery. Apparently you can use it to increase your chakra regeneration by stimulating parts of your core but doing so also damages your body."
"Give it to me," said Sasuke.
"Hey, now, I want to learn it too," said Sakura. "I can maybe use it for healing."
"And I can use it with all the chakra I burn protecting you two," argued Naruto. He knew that something like this would eventually happen.
"So how do we settle this?" asked Sakura.
Naruto frowned, there had to be a fair way to settle a loot dispute. "We could do rock-paper-scissors?"
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